"Invisible Man" Echo in Doctor's Claim Mr. H. G. Wells's Invisible Man,'"' once the wild dream of novelist, has been brought almost within the range of possibility by the discovery of M. Wassilieff, a Russian doctor now in Paris, who has succeeded in producing, if not an invisible, at least a transparent man.
"L have whole human bodies rendered transparent in my laboratory at petrograd," he said, im an interview recently. "1 have also succeeded in making growing plants transparent without killing them. in his laboratory here the dove for has various specimens of the human embryo, from the ovum ta four months, The transparency is that of gelatine, not of crystal, and by means of coloured injections the brain, heart, wte., can be clearly seen in the Jatter specimens.
Wells's dream in the "Invisible Mau' has, moreover, turned out to be prophetic, for the metuoas of the Kussian doctor closely resemble those described in the novel. vay of light striking - a liquid," explains the doctor, is broken up, and forms a certain anglo of retraction. his angle varies with each liquid.
"I have made a mixture of liquids according to their ce-etncient of refraction, Ibis mixture oiters a maximum of transparency.
"I impregnate the organic matter with this mixture, and at the same time inject other liquids in order to dissolve the chemical salts.
"Invisibility is impossible, so far, nor have I yet succeeded in producing these effects upon living animals."
The doctor refuses to disclose the name of the liquids used, preferring to wait until his book on the subject appears about two months hence. with finely worked triple and double spirals.
It is believed that on the other side of the slab there were once a cross and other Christian symbols, but these were obliterated in the seventeenth century, when the stone had apparently been selected for a tombstone by a Highland proprie-for. It bears the following inscription above a coat of arms:—
He that leives (lives) well doth well sayeth Solomon the Wyse. Heir lyes Alexander Dut and his three wyves, 1678.
According to local tradition. this was one of the three memorials erected about the graves of Danish princes who were drowned on the coast of Easter Ross after leaping on to a ridge of rocks which is still called "The King's Sons."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.